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\u201cEk het gesien iets is verkeerd toe die reier nie kon beweeg nie,\u201d vertel Kessell. \u201cToe ons nader vaar, was dit duidelik dat hy erg beseer is. Die vislyn het hom vasgetrek, en die drie vishoeke aan die lyn het deur sy linkeragterbeen en albei vlerke gesteek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Kessell het dit gelyk of die reier van die land se kant af gevlieg en in die vislyn vasgevlieg het. Hy het nie tyd gemors nie en het die reier versigtig in sy boot gelaai en die vislyn afgeknip. Die duidelik getraumatiseerde vo\u00ebl het egter in selfverdediging met sy skerp snawel na Kessell se hand probeer byt, en hom lig beseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kessell het onmiddellik vir Etienne Swanepoel, plaaslik bekend as \u2019n slangvanger en natuurbewaarder, gekontak. Swanepoel het die bloureier na Weskus Veeartseny Ing geneem, waar veeartse dr. Marthinus Jacobs en dr. Lucinda Cowan dadelik hulp verleen het. Dr. Cowan het verduidelik dat drie vishoeke verwyder moes word: een uit die linkeragterbeen en een uit elke vlerk. \u201cDie vlerke was erg verstrengel en die wonde was rou en pynlik,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea. Die wonde is ontsmet en die reier is vir etlike dae versorg en gevoer met sardientjies totdat hy sterk genoeg was en die beserings begin genees het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later dieselfde naweek is die bloureier weer in sy natuurlike habitat vrygelaat, waar hy sy vlerke kon sprei en wegvlieg, \u2019n oomblik wat groot verligting gebring het vir almal betrokke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die suksesvolle reddingspoging het vinnig op sosiale media versprei. In \u2019n Facebook-inskrywing het Weskus Veeartseny Ing hul dank uitgespreek aan dr. Cowan en Etienne Swanepoel vir hul toewyding, en die publiek herinner dat sulke beserings algemeen, maar voorkombaar is. Die inskrywing lui onder meer: \u201cOnthou altyd om vislyne, hoeke en visgerei behoorlik weg te gooi om ons geveerde vriende te beskerm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Vroe\u00eb oggend se visvang op die Bergrivier het op 2 Januarie \u2019n onverwagse wending geneem toe Alan Kessell, \u2019n plaaslike visserman en natuurliefhebber, op \u2019n ernstig beseerde bloureier afgekom 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Volgens Swanepoel is die voorval \u2019n ernstige herinnering aan die belangrikheid van verantwoordelike visvang. \u201cVisvang binne 100 meter van kragdrade is onwettig. Verlate vislyne en hoeke hou \u2019n groot gevaar vir wildlewe in,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Die](\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Die-Bloureier-hang-aan-die-vislyn-wat-van-die-kragdrade-af-hang-Foto-Alan-Kessell-1-704x1024.jpg\")